Articles Tagged data

Say you have a list of 100 names:

<ul>
  <li>Randy Hilpert</li>
  <li>Peggie Jacobi</li>
  <li>Ethelyn Nolan Sr.</li> 
  <!-- and then some -->
</ul>

...or file names, or phone numbers, or whatever. And you want to filter them client-side, meaning you aren't making a server-side request to search through data and return results. You just want to type "rand" and have it filter the list to include "Randy Hilpert" and "Danika Randall" because they both have that string of characters in them. … Read article

Shepherds are good at tending to their sheep, bringing order and structure to their herds. Even if there are hundreds of those wooly animals, a shepherd still herds them back to the farm at the end of the day.

When dealing with data, programmers often don't know if it is correctly filtered or sorted. This is especially painful when iterating over an array then displaying the data on a site without knowing the locations of each element receiving it. The … Read article

I've said a number of times in the past:

I wish I could just check a checkbox and make certain Google Analytics data public.

I get that analytics can be a very private thing for some sites. I think there are just as many sites where that data just doesn't need to be private. Not only would it be interesting, but insight might be gleaned from having more eyeballs on the data, and it could contribute to a wider data … Read article

Last time, we saw how the average web page looks like using data from about 8 million websites. That's a lot of data, and we've been continuing to sift through it. We're back again this time to showcase some random and hopefully interesting facts on markup usage.… Read article